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In 1997 Philip Roth won the Pulitzer Prize for American Pastoral. In 1998 he received the National Medal of Arts at the White House and in 2002 the highest award of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Gold Medal in Fiction. He has twice won the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award. He has won the PEN/Faulkner Award three times. In 2005 The Plot Against America received the Society of American Historians' prize for “the outstanding historical novel on an American theme for 2003-2004.” Recently Roth received PEN's two most prestigious prizes: in 2006 the... Read More
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Indignation
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: October 6, 2009
Price: $15.00
NATIONAL BESTSELLER
In 1951, the second year of the Korean War, a studious, law-abiding, and intense youngster from Newark, New Jersey, Marcus Messner, begins his sophomore year on the pastoral, conservative campus of Ohio's Winesburg College. And why is he there and not at a local college in Newark where he originally... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: October 6, 2009
Price: $15.00
NATIONAL BESTSELLER
In 1951, the second year of the Korean War, a studious, law-abiding, and intense youngster from Newark, New Jersey, Marcus Messner, begins his sophomore year on the pastoral, conservative campus of Ohio's Winesburg College. And why is he there and not at a local college in Newark where he originally... Read more >
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American Pastoral
Format: Trade Paperback, 432 pages
On Sale: February 3, 1998
Price: $15.00
As the American century draws to an uneasy close, Philip Roth gives us a novel of unqualified greatness that is an elegy for all our century's promises of prosperity, civic order, and domestic bliss. Roth's protagonist is Swede Levov, a legendary athlete at his Newark high school, who grows up in... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 432 pages
On Sale: February 3, 1998
Price: $15.00
As the American century draws to an uneasy close, Philip Roth gives us a novel of unqualified greatness that is an elegy for all our century's promises of prosperity, civic order, and domestic bliss. Roth's protagonist is Swede Levov, a legendary athlete at his Newark high school, who grows up in... Read more >
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The Human Stain
Format: Trade Paperback, 384 pages
On Sale: May 8, 2001
Price: $16.00
It is 1998, the year in which America is whipped into a frenzy of prurience by the impeachment of a president, and in a small New England town, an aging classics professor, Coleman Silk, is forced to retire when his colleagues decree that he is a racist. The charge is a... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 384 pages
On Sale: May 8, 2001
Price: $16.00
It is 1998, the year in which America is whipped into a frenzy of prurience by the impeachment of a president, and in a small New England town, an aging classics professor, Coleman Silk, is forced to retire when his colleagues decree that he is a racist. The charge is a... Read more >
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Portnoy's Complaint
Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
On Sale: September 20, 1994
Price: $14.95
Portnoy's Complaint n. [after Alexander Portnoy (1933- )] A disorder in which strongly-felt ethical and altruistic impulses are perpetually warring with extreme sexual longings, often of a perverse nature. Spielvogel says: 'Acts of exhibitionism, voyeurism, fetishism, auto-eroticism and oral coitus are plentiful; as a consequence of the patient's "morality," however, neither... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
On Sale: September 20, 1994
Price: $14.95
Portnoy's Complaint n. [after Alexander Portnoy (1933- )] A disorder in which strongly-felt ethical and altruistic impulses are perpetually warring with extreme sexual longings, often of a perverse nature. Spielvogel says: 'Acts of exhibitionism, voyeurism, fetishism, auto-eroticism and oral coitus are plentiful; as a consequence of the patient's "morality," however, neither... Read more >
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The Plot Against America
Format: Trade Paperback, 416 pages
On Sale: September 27, 2005
Price: $14.95
In an astonishing feat of empathy and narrative invention, our most ambitious novelist imagines an alternate version of American history.
In 1940 Charles A. Lindbergh, heroic aviator and rabid isolationist, is elected President. Shortly thereafter, he negotiates a cordial “understanding” with Adolf Hitler, while the new government embarks on a program... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 416 pages
On Sale: September 27, 2005
Price: $14.95
In an astonishing feat of empathy and narrative invention, our most ambitious novelist imagines an alternate version of American history.
In 1940 Charles A. Lindbergh, heroic aviator and rabid isolationist, is elected President. Shortly thereafter, he negotiates a cordial “understanding” with Adolf Hitler, while the new government embarks on a program... Read more >
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Goodbye, Columbus
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: January 13, 1994
Price: $14.95
Roth's award-winning first book instantly established its author's reputation as a writer of explosive wit, merciless insight, and a fierce compassion for even the most self-deluding of his characters.
Goodbye, Columbus is the story of Neil Klugman and pretty, spirited Brenda Patimkin, he of poor Newark, she of suburban Short Hills, who... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: January 13, 1994
Price: $14.95
Roth's award-winning first book instantly established its author's reputation as a writer of explosive wit, merciless insight, and a fierce compassion for even the most self-deluding of his characters.
Goodbye, Columbus is the story of Neil Klugman and pretty, spirited Brenda Patimkin, he of poor Newark, she of suburban Short Hills, who... Read more >
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Everyman
Format: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
On Sale: April 10, 2007
Price: $13.00
Philip Roth's new novel is a candidly intimate yet universal story of loss, regret, and stoicism. The bestselling author of The Plot Against America now turns his attention from "one family's harrowing encounter with history" (New York Times) to one man's lifelong skirmish with mortality.
The fate of Roth's everyman is traced... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
On Sale: April 10, 2007
Price: $13.00
Philip Roth's new novel is a candidly intimate yet universal story of loss, regret, and stoicism. The bestselling author of The Plot Against America now turns his attention from "one family's harrowing encounter with history" (New York Times) to one man's lifelong skirmish with mortality.
The fate of Roth's everyman is traced... Read more >
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The Ghost Writer
Format: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
On Sale: August 1, 1995
Price: $13.95
The Ghost Writer introduces Nathan Zuckerman in the 1950s, a budding writer infatuated with the Great Books, discovering the contradictory claims of literature and experience while an overnight guest in the secluded New England farmhouse of his idol, E. I. Lonoff.
At Lonoff's, Zuckerman meets Amy Bellette, a haunting young woman... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
On Sale: August 1, 1995
Price: $13.95
The Ghost Writer introduces Nathan Zuckerman in the 1950s, a budding writer infatuated with the Great Books, discovering the contradictory claims of literature and experience while an overnight guest in the secluded New England farmhouse of his idol, E. I. Lonoff.
At Lonoff's, Zuckerman meets Amy Bellette, a haunting young woman... Read more >
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Exit Ghost
Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
On Sale: November 11, 2008
Price: $14.95
Nathan Zuckerman returns to New York in the long-awaited final installment of Philip Roth's renowned Zuckerman series.
Alone for eleven years on his New England mountain, Zuckerman has been nothing but a writer: no media, no terrorist threats, no women, no tasks other than his work and the enduring of old age... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
On Sale: November 11, 2008
Price: $14.95
Nathan Zuckerman returns to New York in the long-awaited final installment of Philip Roth's renowned Zuckerman series.
Alone for eleven years on his New England mountain, Zuckerman has been nothing but a writer: no media, no terrorist threats, no women, no tasks other than his work and the enduring of old age... Read more >
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Sabbath's Theater
Format: Trade Paperback, 464 pages
On Sale: August 6, 1996
Price: $16.00
Sabbath's Theater is a comic creation of epic proportions, and Mickey Sabbath is its gargantuan hero. Once a scandalously inventive puppeteer, Sabbath at sixty-four is still defiantly antagonistic and exceedingly libidinous. But after the death of his long-time mistress—an erotic free spirit whose adulterous daring surpassed even his own—Sabbath embarks on... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 464 pages
On Sale: August 6, 1996
Price: $16.00
Sabbath's Theater is a comic creation of epic proportions, and Mickey Sabbath is its gargantuan hero. Once a scandalously inventive puppeteer, Sabbath at sixty-four is still defiantly antagonistic and exceedingly libidinous. But after the death of his long-time mistress—an erotic free spirit whose adulterous daring surpassed even his own—Sabbath embarks on... Read more >
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The Counterlife
Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
On Sale: August 6, 1996
Price: $14.95
The Counterlife is about people enacting their dreams of renewal and escape, some of them going so far as to risk their lives to alter seemingly irreversible destinies. Wherever they may find themselves, the characters of The Counterlife are tempted unceasingly by the prospect of an alternative existence that can reverse... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
On Sale: August 6, 1996
Price: $14.95
The Counterlife is about people enacting their dreams of renewal and escape, some of them going so far as to risk their lives to alter seemingly irreversible destinies. Wherever they may find themselves, the characters of The Counterlife are tempted unceasingly by the prospect of an alternative existence that can reverse... Read more >
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The Dying Animal
Format: Trade Paperback, 176 pages
On Sale: July 9, 2002
Price: $12.95
No matter how much you know, no matter how much you think, no matter how much you plot and you connive and you plan, you’re not superior to sex. With these words our most unflaggingly energetic and morally serious novelist launches perhaps his fiercest book. The speaker is David Kepesh, white-haired... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 176 pages
On Sale: July 9, 2002
Price: $12.95
No matter how much you know, no matter how much you think, no matter how much you plot and you connive and you plan, you’re not superior to sex. With these words our most unflaggingly energetic and morally serious novelist launches perhaps his fiercest book. The speaker is David Kepesh, white-haired... Read more >
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Operation Shylock
Format: Trade Paperback, 400 pages
On Sale: March 15, 1994
Price: $16.00
Time Magazine Best American Novel (1993)
In this fiendishly imaginative book (which may or may not be fiction), Philip Roth meets a man who may or may not be Philip Roth. Because someone with that name has been touring Israel, promoting a bizarre reverse exodus of the Jews. Roth is intent on... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 400 pages
On Sale: March 15, 1994
Price: $16.00
Time Magazine Best American Novel (1993)
In this fiendishly imaginative book (which may or may not be fiction), Philip Roth meets a man who may or may not be Philip Roth. Because someone with that name has been touring Israel, promoting a bizarre reverse exodus of the Jews. Roth is intent on... Read more >
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I Married a Communist
Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
On Sale: November 2, 1999
Price: $14.00
I Married a Communist is the story of the rise and fall of Ira Ringold, a big American roughneck who begins life as a teenage ditch-digger in 1930s Newark, becomes a big-time 1940s radio star, and is destroyed, as both a performer and a man, in the McCarthy witchhunt of the... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
On Sale: November 2, 1999
Price: $14.00
I Married a Communist is the story of the rise and fall of Ira Ringold, a big American roughneck who begins life as a teenage ditch-digger in 1930s Newark, becomes a big-time 1940s radio star, and is destroyed, as both a performer and a man, in the McCarthy witchhunt of the... Read more >
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My Life as a Man
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
On Sale: January 13, 1994
Price: $14.95
A fiction-within-a-fiction, a labyrinthine edifice of funny, mournful, and harrowing meditations on the fatal impasse between a man and a woman, My Life as a Man is Roth's most blistering novel.
At its heart lies the marriage of Peter and Maureen Tarnopol, a gifted young writer and the woman who wants... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
On Sale: January 13, 1994
Price: $14.95
A fiction-within-a-fiction, a labyrinthine edifice of funny, mournful, and harrowing meditations on the fatal impasse between a man and a woman, My Life as a Man is Roth's most blistering novel.
At its heart lies the marriage of Peter and Maureen Tarnopol, a gifted young writer and the woman who wants... Read more >
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The Dying Animal (Movie Tie-In Edition)
Format: Trade Paperback, 176 pages
On Sale: July 22, 2008
Price: $12.95
David Kepesh is an eminent cultural critic and star lecturer at a New York college-as well as an articulate propagandist of the sexual revolution. For years he has made a practice of sleeping with adventurous female students while maintaining an aesthete's critical distance. But now that distance has been annihilated.
When he... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 176 pages
On Sale: July 22, 2008
Price: $12.95
David Kepesh is an eminent cultural critic and star lecturer at a New York college-as well as an articulate propagandist of the sexual revolution. For years he has made a practice of sleeping with adventurous female students while maintaining an aesthete's critical distance. But now that distance has been annihilated.
When he... Read more >
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Zuckerman Unbound
Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
On Sale: August 1, 1995
Price: $15.00
Now in his mid-thirties, Nathan Zuckerman, a would-be recluse despite his newfound fame as a bestselling author, ventures onto the streets of Manhattan in the final year of the turbulent sixties. Not only is he assumed by his fans to be his own fictional satyr, Gilbert Carnovsky ("Hey, you do all... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
On Sale: August 1, 1995
Price: $15.00
Now in his mid-thirties, Nathan Zuckerman, a would-be recluse despite his newfound fame as a bestselling author, ventures onto the streets of Manhattan in the final year of the turbulent sixties. Not only is he assumed by his fans to be his own fictional satyr, Gilbert Carnovsky ("Hey, you do all... Read more >
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The Professor of Desire
Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
On Sale: March 15, 1994
Price: $15.00
As a student in college, David Kepesh styles himself "a rake among scholars, a scholar among rakes." Little does he realize how prophetic this motto will be—or how damning. For as Philip Roth follows Kepesh from the domesticity of childhood into the vast wilderness of erotic possibility, from a ménage à... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
On Sale: March 15, 1994
Price: $15.00
As a student in college, David Kepesh styles himself "a rake among scholars, a scholar among rakes." Little does he realize how prophetic this motto will be—or how damning. For as Philip Roth follows Kepesh from the domesticity of childhood into the vast wilderness of erotic possibility, from a ménage à... Read more >
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The Great American Novel
Format: Trade Paperback, 416 pages
On Sale: April 11, 1995
Price: $14.95
Gil Gamesh, the only pitcher who ever literally tried to kill the umpire. The ex-con first baseman, John Baal, "The Babe Ruth of the Big House," who never hit a home run sober. If you've never heard of them—or of the Ruppert Mundys, the only homeless big-league ball team in American... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 416 pages
On Sale: April 11, 1995
Price: $14.95
Gil Gamesh, the only pitcher who ever literally tried to kill the umpire. The ex-con first baseman, John Baal, "The Babe Ruth of the Big House," who never hit a home run sober. If you've never heard of them—or of the Ruppert Mundys, the only homeless big-league ball team in American... Read more >
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When She Was Good
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: January 31, 1995
Price: $15.00
In this funny and chilling novel, the setting is a small town in the 1940s Midwest, and the subject is the heart of a wounded and ferociously moralistic young woman, one of those implacable American moralists whose "goodness" is a terrible disease.
When she was still a child, Lucy Nelson had... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: January 31, 1995
Price: $15.00
In this funny and chilling novel, the setting is a small town in the 1940s Midwest, and the subject is the heart of a wounded and ferociously moralistic young woman, one of those implacable American moralists whose "goodness" is a terrible disease.
When she was still a child, Lucy Nelson had... Read more >
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The Facts
Format: Trade Paperback, 208 pages
On Sale: January 28, 1997
Price: $14.00
The Facts is the unconventional autobiography of a writer who has reshaped our idea of fiction—a work of compelling candor and inventiveness, instructive particularly in its revelation of the interplay between life and art.
Philip Roth concentrates on five episodes from his life: his secure city childhood in the thirties and... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 208 pages
On Sale: January 28, 1997
Price: $14.00
The Facts is the unconventional autobiography of a writer who has reshaped our idea of fiction—a work of compelling candor and inventiveness, instructive particularly in its revelation of the interplay between life and art.
Philip Roth concentrates on five episodes from his life: his secure city childhood in the thirties and... Read more >
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The Breast
Format: Trade Paperback, 96 pages
On Sale: March 15, 1994
Price: $12.00
Like a latter-day Gregor Samsa, Professor David Kepesh wakes up one morning to find that he has been transformed. But where Kafka's protagonist turned into a giant beetle, the narrator of Philip Roth's richly conceived fantasy has become a 155-pound female breast. What follows is a deliriously funny yet touching exploration... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 96 pages
On Sale: March 15, 1994
Price: $12.00
Like a latter-day Gregor Samsa, Professor David Kepesh wakes up one morning to find that he has been transformed. But where Kafka's protagonist turned into a giant beetle, the narrator of Philip Roth's richly conceived fantasy has become a 155-pound female breast. What follows is a deliriously funny yet touching exploration... Read more >
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Letting Go
Format: Trade Paperback, 640 pages
On Sale: September 2, 1997
Price: $16.00
Letting Go is Roth's first full-length novel, published just after Goodbye, Columbus, when he was twenty-nine. Set in 1950s Chicago, New York, and Iowa city, Letting Go presents as brilliant a fictional portrait as we have of a mid-century America defined by social and ethical constraints and by moral compulsions conspicuously... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 640 pages
On Sale: September 2, 1997
Price: $16.00
Letting Go is Roth's first full-length novel, published just after Goodbye, Columbus, when he was twenty-nine. Set in 1950s Chicago, New York, and Iowa city, Letting Go presents as brilliant a fictional portrait as we have of a mid-century America defined by social and ethical constraints and by moral compulsions conspicuously... Read more >
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Reading Myself and Others
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: May 29, 2001
Price: $16.00
The interviews, essays, and articles collected here span a quarter century of Philip Roth's distinguished career and "reveal [a] preoccupation with the relationship between the written and the unwritten world." Here is Roth on himself and his work and the controversies it's engendered. Here too are Roth's writings on the Eastern... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: May 29, 2001
Price: $16.00
The interviews, essays, and articles collected here span a quarter century of Philip Roth's distinguished career and "reveal [a] preoccupation with the relationship between the written and the unwritten world." Here is Roth on himself and his work and the controversies it's engendered. Here too are Roth's writings on the Eastern... Read more >
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The Prague Orgy
Format: Trade Paperback, 96 pages
On Sale: January 30, 1996
Price: $10.95
In quest of the unpublished manuscript of a martyred Yiddish writer, the American novelist Nathan Zuckerman travels to Soviet-occupied Prague in the mid-1970s. There, in a nation straightjacketed by totalitarian Communism, he discovers a literary predicament, marked by institutionalized oppression, that is rather different from his own. He also discovers, among... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 96 pages
On Sale: January 30, 1996
Price: $10.95
In quest of the unpublished manuscript of a martyred Yiddish writer, the American novelist Nathan Zuckerman travels to Soviet-occupied Prague in the mid-1970s. There, in a nation straightjacketed by totalitarian Communism, he discovers a literary predicament, marked by institutionalized oppression, that is rather different from his own. He also discovers, among... Read more >
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